Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela: Archaeological Find

Posted 17 April 2008 14:09 GMT

Countries	Venezuela, Trinidad & Tobago
Topics	History, Indigenous, Media & Journalism, Digital Activism
Languages	English

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Venezuela

Caribbean Beat Blog reveals that on the island of Cubagua, situated between Venezuela's northeastern shoreline and the resort island of Margarita, “researchers reportedly have found archaelogical traces of three distinct periods of human history in the Americas.”

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